Healing in the Time of COVID: The Connection between Spirituality, Burnout and Modern Medicine
Modern society’s obsession with the outer aspects of humanity – the material, the technologies, and the techniques for manipulating us – has obscured the deeper, spiritual dimension of what makes us whole. This results in personal and social fragmentation and the resulting lack of respect for others and burnout in ourselves. Within all of us is an inherent capacity to connect with others, to love the world, to be at peace with ourselves and to heal, by transcending this fragmentation and its consequences.
In this session, a physician and chaplain will each give their perspectives on how to find and experience that transcendence. They will discuss what COVID has taught us about isolation and burnout and offer up perspectives and practices that can help your clients, be they congregations, patients, or students, and for yourself, to transcend the burnout in this time of unusually intense separation from wholeness.
Dr. Jonas is the author of How Healing Works: Get Well and Stay Well Using Your Hidden Power to Heal (Lorena Jones Books, January 9, 2018), a practicing family physician, widely published scientific investigator, and an expert in whole person healing. Dr. Jonas is the Executive Director of Samueli Foundation Integrative Health Programs, an effort supported by Henry and Susan Samueli to increase awareness and access to integrative health. Additionally, Dr. Jonas is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Medical Corps of the United States Army.
He is joined by Rev. Maeba Jonas, an interfaith chaplain who serves as the Chaplain and Director of Religious & Spiritual Life at Goucher College. Rev. Maeba is an Interfaith Chaplain and Ordained Minister in the United Church of Christ (UCC). A graduate of Kenyon College, she completed a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies with a concentration in Buddhism and Women’s and Gender Studies. She earned a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School with a certificate in Education, Leadership, and Ministry. Maeba is also a certified trauma-informed yoga instructor and meditation teacher. Most recently, she served as the Assistant Chaplain at Johns Hopkins University. Maeba is passionate about supporting people of all faiths, and non-faith backgrounds as well as the spiritual-but-not-religious and is dedicated to enhancing interfaith dialogue and the mind-body-spirit connection. Register here.